GapMinder: World Stats

GapMinder is an online time-waster (that might sometimes be considered a useful tool) that helps visualize many different statistics from different countries into a single neat graph. In this photo, I'm comparing the Sulfur emissions per person (y axis) to the % of self-employment (x axis) to CO2 emissions (size of bubble) in different countries. It's cool to mess around with, especially the effect of time on the numbers (you can scroll through the years to compare).

World Map Info

This website "Charts Bin" dedicates itself to interesting and/or weird information of countries around the globe in an interactive way- it's pretty cool! One of the cooler ones is the coffee per capita of almost every country, neat! Image found: here.

Science Conspiracies

Lots of people believe, that the "Large Hadron Collider", will destroy the world, similarly to making a wee version of a sun using 192 uber powerful lasers (see the article for more information) by 2022.

Also, an extremely popular video explaining in vague details what the LHC does can be found here.

A pretty good video proving the LHC conspiracy is "Science!" (though it goes off topic quite a bit).

IYA2009

This year is the International Year of Astronomy. It has many major goals but only 2 will affect the common people: Increase scientific awareness and increase widespread knowledge of the subject. The other goals are to improve/ create better astronomic tools and activities including 100 Hours of Astronomy. Their official website can be found at Astronomy2009.org.

Snubby Land

Snubby Land is a game site with minor mistakes. One of my favorite game is The World's Hardest Game fun but hard. Pictured left is the World Hardest Game Final Level.

Top 10 Zoomers

Top 10 fastest cars can be found at many sites the MSN News one, Super Cars, Automo Blog, Gayot, V-Cars and a video. Photo here.

Biggest Drawing In World (Fake)

It would have been cool... Official website here. Made on a GPS. Many other people had this idea gallerys here and here.

N Game

Wow! You must play this game if you haven't already it's just called N. It is so good in fact that Metanet Software Inc. made a video game of it simply called N+. Photo here.

WorldMapper

"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

There are now nearly 600 maps."

This map shows refugee origins: countries that more people try to escape from are shown larger. Not too many people are refugees from Canada, the USA, or Mexico, so North America appears as a spidery line. Some tiny countries in the Middle East and Africa are huge.

Check out the toy exports map.

Google Earth 4.3

Google 4.3 already! Wow. Beta. Get it here.

Guinness World Record Gamers!

More info here.

National Geographic

National Geographic is great! My personnel favorite is When Humans Disappear and 6 Degrees Warmer (5 Degrees, 4, 3 and 2. Are also available)

Vending Machines

For those who like to cheat on life Hacking a vending machine 1 and #2. iPod Vending Machine and the Biggest Vending M. Oh! And V. M. Fever

World's Fastest Toilet

Okay...

World Best Tetris/soccer Player

World Best Tetris Player
Maybe the best soccer goal and a new video game for PSP

Tetris Shelves photo found Here